secret falls

This is a waterfall that I happened along while hiking today. I hadn't known about it before, although I had probably walked within 20 m of it. As you can see, the weather is getting colder, and we have had a few days below 0 C. This stream was fed by a beaver pond a short ways above. There was lots of evidence that the beavers have been active this year, storing branches at the bottom of the pond. Hopefully they have stored enough to keep them fed through the winter.
(You may be able to tell that I enhanced the sharpness and saturation of this photo a bit. It was a pretty dull day!)